Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X8928 M311

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6689

Shelfmark:

X8928 M311

Title:

Calligraphy samples in Persian

Author:

Gulāb Rāʼī, Fadwá, active 19th century / گلاب رائي، فدوى، active 19th century،

Fadwá Gulāb Rāʼī WIKIDATA

Place:

Agra, India

Āgra TGN

Date:

1823-1858?

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian with two leaves in Sanskrit; colophon in Urdu

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 42, i leaves : paper ; 183 x 115 (112 x 67) mm, bound to 192 x 115 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894

Alexander Isaac Cotheal WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Various; leaves numbered in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red ink, upper left recto.
Script: Written primarily in styles of nastaʻlīq in black or red ink; pointed.
Decoration: Numerous illustrations and calligraphic examples with floral borders; page openings with content are frame-ruled in black or red.
Origin: Item is undated, but likely copied in the 19th century. The colophon states that the author and calligrapher is Fadwá Gulāb Rāʼī, an inhabitant of Tajganj [Agra], and a student at the Madrasah of Sarkar Faiz East India Company (Angrez Bahadur) (f. 42r). Probably the Agra College, founded in 1823.
Shelfmark: X892.8 M311.
Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp f. 1r, 42v).

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Specimens

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

calligraphy (visual works)

Manuscripts, Persian

Calligraphy, Persian

Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15147183

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15147183_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library